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A corpus-based approach to< ahem/> expressive speech synthesis

Eide et al., 2004

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10233977278686672581
Author
Eide E
Aaron A
Bakis R
Hamza W
Picheny M
Pitrelli J
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5th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop

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Human speech communication can be thought of as comprising two channels–the words themselves, and the style in which they are spoken. Each of these channels carries information. Today's most-advanced text-to-speech (TTS) systems such as [1],[2],[3],[4] fall …
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